Despite recording more than 570 homicides in 2024, Chicago actually saw signs of improvement, with that total marking the third consecutive year the city recorded fewer killings than the one prior.

In fact, 2024 was the first year since the COVID-19 pandemic that the city had fewer than 600 slayings before the turn of the calendar. The official...Read more

Imagine standing on a street corner and trying to decide whether someone has a severe, moderate or mild substance use disorder, whether their medical condition is serious and likely to deteriorate, or whether their personal safety is so compromised that they are likely to die if they are not detained.

Such weighty decisions are usually the ...Read more

DENVER -- Over the last five years, Larimer County in northern Colorado has seen what appears to be a steady, sustained drop in its suicide rate — a potentially significant breakthrough in a state that consistently ranks in the top 10 nationally for its high rate.

How the county got there was a decade-long affair in which local officials, ...Read more

Mary Benhart’s family gushed about Disney World’s willingness to accommodate people with disabilities in an ad for the company last year.

“You can actually relax as a special-needs family,” Benhart said, perched beside her husband, who uses a wheelchair, and their two young sons. “It’s everything.”

But those same accommodations ...Read more

Mehmet Oz stood in front of a camera in July and filmed a TikTok about “how to conquer your constipation.”

“Here’s the scoop on the poop brain loop,” Oz said confidently, delving into an enthusiastic pitch for probiotic supplements to keep you regular.

In the two years since losing his 2022 Senate bid to Democrat John Fetterman — a...Read more

A Queens kidnapping ring that targeted fellow members of the Bengali community tortured one victim for spreading gossip about the ringleader’s wife, new court documents reveal.

Supermarket owner Abu Chowdhury, 35, his wife, Iffat Lubna, 24 — already accused in a pair of brutal kidnappings — were hit with new charges earlier this month ...Read more

President Joe Biden paused his vacation in the Virgin Islands to address the nation just hours after the passing of a political mentor whom he had grown close to over the decades, former President Jimmy Carter.

“America and the world, in my view, lost a remarkable leader,” Biden said. “He was a statesman and humanitarian, and Jill and I ...Read more

Jimmy Carter, 100, the peanut farmer who became the commander in chief, whose ceaseless humanitarian work around the globe superseded his one tumultuous term as 39th president of the United States, died Sunday, Dec. 29, in hospice care at his longtime home in Plains, Ga., according to his nonprofit organization.

Born Oct. 1, 1924, Carter died ...Read more

ATLANTA — In the wake of Former President Jimmy Carter’s death, national and local leaders are sharing their reactions and celebrating the life of a man who set a new standard for post-presidencies.

Carter died at his home in Plains about 3:45 p.m. Sunday, nearly two years after entering home hospice care. He was 100.

U.S. President Joe ...Read more

Jimmy Carter, a former peanut farmer who rose from rural Georgia to the White House and went on to a storied post-presidency that included winning the Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Ga. He was 100.

An outsider, free from the baggage of Washington, Carter defeated President Gerald R. Ford in 1976, a victory seen as ...Read more

Jimmy Carter wore a button-down shirt in Khartoum. It was a sweltering morning and the sun shone on the Nile as the clamorous city was rousing to life. Carter was in the Sudanese capital to monitor the 2010 election that was certain to extend the rule of autocrat Omar Hassan Ahmed Bashir, who had been indicted on international charges of crimes...Read more

The death of former President Jimmy Carter on Sunday led to a swift outpouring of support and condolences from notable figures in both political parties.

President Joe Biden and president-elect Donald Trump issued statements Sunday, and both said Carter was a president who worked to better Americans’ lives.

“He was a man of great character...Read more

A slate of new Minnesota laws is set to go into effect on Jan. 1.

Here are some of the bigger changes:

‘Taylor Swift bill’

Ticket purchasers will get more transparency from sellers under a bill signed into law earlier this year. The legislation was sponsored by Rep. Kelly Moller, DFL-Shoreview, who was frustrated after she said she couldn...Read more

Statewide requirements to help prevent copper wire theft will become law on Jan. 1 despite a lawsuit by the scrap metal workers claiming the legislation will effectively shut down their industry.

The new law requires anyone recycling scrap metal copper for profit to obtain a state-issued license. Licensed electricians and other trade and ...Read more

Dignitaries and the media had gathered in Baltimore’s Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood to meet him, but on June 16, 1992, Habitat for Humanity’s most celebrated volunteer was focused on the task at hand.

“Jimmy said, ‘We’re going out back, and we’re building you a deck,’” Sonia Street recalled in an interview with The Baltimore ...Read more

The Carter administration era opened the floodgates to Miami.

President Jimmy Carter’s name is indelibly tied to one of the largest sea exoduses in history, one that shaped Miami for years to come and arguably played a part in his reelection defeat: the Mariel boatlift.

Between April and October of 1980, about 125,000 Cubans came to South ...Read more

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died on Dec. 29, 2024, at age 100 at his home in Plains, Georgia, was a dark horse Democratic presidential candidate with little national recognition when he beat Republican incumbent Gerald Ford in 1976.

The introspective former peanut farmer pledged a new era of honesty and forthrightness at home ...Read more

Jimmy Carter, the longest living former president, whose term was marred by the Iran hostage crisis and rampant inflation but who went on to build a humanitarian legacy that was recognized with a Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday. He was 100.

No cause was announced. In February 2023 he entered hospice care.

The peanut farmer from Georgia was a ...Read more

The summer of 1979 featured disco in the nightclubs, “Saturday Night Fever” on the radio, and long lines at the gas pumps, where prices were high and supply was short.

High unemployment, inflation and the energy crisis engendered by foreign oil producers crippled the country. The 444 days of the crisis when a newly revolutionary Iran took ...Read more

ATLANTA — On Jan. 20, 1981, after suffering a landslide defeat, former President Jimmy Carter returned home to rural Plains to what he called “an altogether new, unwanted, and potentially empty life.”

By 1982, he had such a low profile that Time magazine called him “virtually a non-person, a president who never was.”

But Carter would...Read more